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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

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The eye altering, alters all.

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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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